Books like A Thousand Splendid Suns
12 books with a reading profile close to A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini. Inward-looking and contemplative; a moderate read.
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The Kite Runner
Also inward-looking · history, narrative
Set in Kabul during the final years of the Afghan monarchy, the story follows Amir, a privileged boy who fails to intervene when his loyal friend and servant, Hassan, is brutally assaulted after a kite-fighting tourname…
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The Red Tent
Also inward-looking · history, narrative
Dinah, the only daughter of the biblical patriarch Jacob, narrates her life against the backdrop of ancient Mesopotamia and Canaan.
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3
The Cellist of Sarajevo
Also inward-looking · history, narrative
Set in the besieged city of Sarajevo, the narrative follows three civilians navigating a landscape of sniper fire and shellings.
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4
Ve Dağlar Yankılandı
Also inward-looking and contemplative · history, narrative
The narrative begins in 1952 Afghanistan when a father sells his young daughter, Pari, to a wealthy, childless couple in Kabul.
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Five Little Indians
Also inward-looking · history, narrative
Five children, Kenny, Clara, Maisie, Lucy and Howie, are taken from their families as small children and sent to a residential school in British Columbia.
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The Vanishing Half
by Brit Bennett
Also inward-looking · history, narrative
In the small town of Mallard, Louisiana, the light-skinned Vignes twins, Desiree and Stella, grow up in a community that prizes fair complexions.
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The Mercies
Also inward-looking · history, narrative
In 1617, a sudden storm kills every man in the remote Norwegian fishing village of Vardø.
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8
Yellow Wife
Also inward-looking · history, narrative
Born into a life of relative privilege on a Virginia plantation, Pheby Delores Brown is promised her freedom at age eighteen.
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Memphis
Also inward-looking · history, narrative
Spanning three generations of a Black family in Memphis, Tennessee, this novel centers on the women of one family, who must handle poverty, domestic violence and racism while keeping alive a sense of faith and creativit…
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Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
by Lisa See
Also inward-looking · history, narrative
Set in nineteenth-century Hunan province, the narrative follows Lily, a girl born into a modest farming family during the Qing dynasty.
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The Mad Women's Ball
by Victoria Mas
history, narrative
Set in 1885 at the Salpêtrière asylum in Paris, the narrative follows Eugénie Cléry, a young woman committed to the institution by her father after she reveals her ability to speak with spirits.
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The German Girl
history, narrative
In 1939 Berlin, twelve-year-old Hannah Rosenthal and her family board the SS St.
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